I ran into an interesting issue with an older Dell server that I have. I tried to add some RAM to it, and one of the RAM sticks ended up being bad, but in the process of trying to boot up, it seems to have tried to load the BIOS information, but then failed when it hit the bad RAM.
So, what it did, was reset the BIOS! I didn't figure this out at first because I was getting nervous that the server would skip over the normal "Controller 0... Initializing..." part and then fail because it couldn't find a boot device.
The fix:
1) Start the Server
2) Go into SETUP
3) Go to INTEGRATED DEVICES
4) Look for the SCSI Setup (was on the top of the window in my screens)
5) Set the value to SCSI or RAID, depending on your setup
6) Exit and Save from the BIOS
Hopefully, if you situation is the same, this will fix it. :)
Friday, February 27, 2009
RAID Controller Not Initializing on boot after restart
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